The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-01-01
Aoetital.
Gettysburg.
copyrighted in 1885 by ]. W. slagenhaup)

copyrighted in 1885 by J. W. slagenhaup)
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And then came on the rolling tide,
Dashing and spreading far and wide,
Among the crags in sight.
Cannon are on the hillside steep;
Cannon are in the valley deep;
Cannon are on the hight.
Onward came the Confederates,
Determined to possess those nights,
OF that great field the key;
Into the gorge, with stubborn will,
And up toward the crest of hill,
They rush with bravery.
That movement, grandly bold, is seen.
Advancing up the steep ravine,
Through storms of shot and shell;
Each inclination of the hills
Sends down the leaden shower that fills
With dead the narrow dell.
Impart ial Death strikes down the first
Who stand before his fatal thrust;
Down, down commanders go.
Vincent has fallen at his post
gallant officer is lost
And Weed falls dying too.
When Hazlctt stoops to hear the last
ofspoken word as life is fast
Fading from Weeds dimmed eyes,
A mark for some sharp-shooter's eye,
In that exposed position, he,
Struck by the bullet, dies
Now for the tug of combat. Here
They charge upon the blues, nor fear,
Though crimsoned is the soil.
One instant down the hill they're borne;
Then, rallying, again they turn
And make the grays recoil.
And they retreat across the crest,
And down the side are holly pressed
By those in close pursuit.
They halt, reform, and charge again
Over the bodies of the slain
Horseman and those on foot.
The grays again the hilltop cross,
And make each step with fearful loss;
Again they are repulsed,
And backward turn in swift retreat,
While shook the earth beneath their feet,
BY the great shocks conyulsed.
And now fresh troops their ranks enlarge,
And up the hill again they charge
With shattered force retire.
How firmly to the charge they camel
And then, like grass before the fame,
They wilted in the fire.
Three times they charged and were repealed,
And still the Union army held
That strong, important post.
OF those who TO attack were led,
In wounded, prisoners and dead,
What numbers there were lost!
Then The pursuers hotly drive
The scattered fragments that survive
The perils of that glen,
The left, defended, is secure;
But on the centre, right, the roar
OF battle swells amain.
Battles. successive actions rage
Along the line. The hosts engage
With rousing energies
Among the rocks and on the plain,
Where many fields of golden grain
Wave ripened in the breeze.
Then Sickles, with wound severe,
Is carried helpless to the rear,
And Birnie takes his place;
And Barksdale, wounded mortally,
When taken from the enemy,
Soon ends his mortal race.
The combat undated still
CONTINUES on the plain and hill
4 With varying success.
1.-The fierce antagonists are close,
- slnDIiud ful of theiruse'
ffSh the federals press.
The Union troops, imreriled, found
That enemies were all around;
Yet boldly they remain.
The noble Zook has met his fate
Endeavoring to animate
His soldiers, he was slain.
Now to the rescue Ayres leads
His veterans, and men and steeds
Upon the foemen rush;
Stern and united, down they bear,
Upon the adversaries, there
Rank, file, before them crush.
-fise i5ss. 'st'aies
The loud reports aro heard aiar
With feelings of alright;
The citizens, with vague alarm,
Know not what CONSERVATION, harm
+ha,n from tho FIGHT